“With the sun rising on the distant sea horizon, she could almost forget the braying of the donkeys.”

“Somewhere near the Alamo, a bugle brayed: either that or McCulloch’s men had found some reason to torture a poor, defenseless donkey.”

“Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon!”

“How are you going to teach logic in a world where everybody talks about the sun setting, when it’s really the horizon rising?[Cal Craig]”

“A fortune-teller means a braggart anyway. Don’t you know that a donkey can’t do but braying, a wolf can’t do but howling, a horse can’t do but neighing, and a fortune-teller can’t do but telling lies?”

“I dropped my head into my arms. I could hear the sea vibrating, the tiny hiss of displaced sand and the click of stones. If I lay still and quiet enough, I thought, I could melt into this elemental world of sun, water and wide, open horizon.”